Alexandra Lamiña

International Forum in Participatory Cartography and Natural Resources Rights, Bogotá 2011.
International Colloquium of Quilombolas, Palenqueros, Cimarrones, Cumbes, Saramaka, Boni, Djuka and Garífuna. Brazil 2013.
«Community Planning» International Conference co-organized by UT Austin Students, Los Platanitos community, and Mujeres Unidas women-run organization, the Dominican Republic, March 2018
International Participatory Action Research in Mexico 2015.

I have participated in international collaborations for Geographical Assessments in Indigenous and Afro-Latin descent Politics of Territorial Rights and Autonomy in Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil and planning studios in informal areas of the Dominican Republic and Mexico. This long-term collaborative work has helped me to keep important academic networks of research and advocacy. Our collective work is now part of ongoing scholarly publications.

Participatory Workshops with Indigenous communities, Ecuadorian Amazonia 2010.

Collaborative Methodologies

Conducting Surveys in Los Platanitos community, the Dominican Republic, 2018.

Participatory workshops and body-mappings, Ecuadorian Amazonia, 2022.

My collaborative work draws on methods developed in critical geography, planning, and gender studies to show how people’s social actions shape space/place, how lived experiences reveal agency and subjectivity, and how gender produces various, shifting identities. I also draw on ethical and critical pedagogies developed in Latin American Studies to ensure that the community could carry on the capacity-building process, recognizing participants as co-researchers to establish democratic learning processes.